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The Decline of Django

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Re: The Decline of Django

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Post by bluewalt »

mickjagger wrote: post #2

What’s better?

I don't know Phoenix enough to make a fair comparison, but I'd say it have major features Django doesn't have (like LiveView), but the opposite is probably true.

But as soon as you go to the JS world, you won't find any full-featured framework like Django or Rails. The Django's philosophy is that all components are built by Django team itself whereas in the JS world, existing frameworks tend to gather independent components and define conventions to make them work together in an elegant way, which is very different.

Re: The Decline of Django

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Post by alsoicode »

bluewalt wrote: post #4
mickjagger wrote: post #2

What’s better?

I don't know Phoenix enough to make a fair comparison, but I'd say it have major features Django doesn't have (like LiveView), but the opposite is probably true. But as soon as you go to the JS world, you won't find any full-featured framework like Django or Rails. The Django's philosophy is that all components are built by Django team itself whereas in the JS world, existing frameworks tend to gather independent com…

Keystone.js has an admin similar to Django, but nowhere near as full featured.

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Post by devwastaken »

If I were to have a Django backend and only be serving Json responses, what combination of methods/libraries are commonly used for that? Such as input validation, client side request sending, etc.

Re: The Decline of Django

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Post by the-dude »

blacktriangle wrote: post #8

Eh a lot of these seems like strengths of Django. Rails chasing the SPA dragon has been a source of endless pain.

Could you elaborate? After a ~10 years hiatus I revisited Rails last year and whipped up a CRUD app with auth in no time. No SPA in sight.
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